London Orthodox school drops teacher because she was ordained as a rabbi The educator had been warned of the move, which was made because of the British chief rabbi’s opposition to women obtaining rabbinical degrees.
Rabbi Lila Kagedan poised to make history with job at Orthodox shul Kagedan is the first ordainee of Yeshivat Maharat to call herself a rabbi and land a job at an Orthodox synagogue.
First female graduate of Orthodox seminary hired by synagogue Lila Kagedan, who was ordained this summer by the Open Orthodox seminary, declined to identify the American congregation who hired her.
